Gateway to the Classics: READING-LITERATURE: The Primer by Harriette Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free
 
READING-LITERATURE: The Primer by  Harriette Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free
Table of Contents
The Little Red Hen
The Gingerbread Boy
The Old Woman and the Pig
The Boy and the Goat
The Pancake
Chicken Little
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Little Tuppens
Little Spider's First Web

The Little Red Hen


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The little red hen found a seed.

It was a little seed.

The little red hen found a seed.

It was a wheat seed.


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The little red hen found a seed.

It was a wheat seed.


The little red hen said,

"Who will plant the seed?"



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The little red hen said,

"Who will plant the seed?"


The pig said, "Not I."

The cat said, "Not I."

The dog said, "Not I."


The little red hen said, "I will."



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The little red hen said,

"Who will cut the wheat?"


The pig said, "Not I."

The cat said, "Not I."

The dog said, "Not I."


The little red hen said,

"I will then."

And she did.



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The little red hen said,

"Who will thresh the wheat?"


The pig said, "Not I."

The cat said, "Not I."

The dog said, "Not I."


The little red hen said,

"I will then."

And she did.



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The little red hen said,

"Who will grind the wheat?"


The pig said, "Not I."

The cat said, "Not I."

The dog said, "Not I."


The little red hen said,

"I will then."

And she did.



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The little red hen said,

"Who will make the bread?"


The pig said, "Not I."

The cat said, "Not I."

The dog said, "Not I."


The little red hen said,

"I will then."

And she did.



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The little red hen said,

"Who will eat the bread?"


The pig said, "I will."

The cat said, "I will."

The dog said, "I will."


The little red hen said,

"You shall not eat the bread.

I will eat it."

And she did.


The little red hen found a seed.

It was a wheat seed.


She said,

"Who will plant the wheat?

Who will cut the wheat?

Who will thresh the wheat?

Who will grind the wheat?

Who will make the bread?"


The pig said, "I will not."

The cat said, "I will not."

The dog said, "I will not."


The little red hen said,

"Then you shall not eat the bread."


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